Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns

출생 : 1923-10-05, Pretoria, South Africa

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Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a South African-born British retired actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour, she is best known for originating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary Poppins. In 2020, with the death of Olivia de Havilland, Johns became the oldest living Academy Award-nominee in any acting category. In both roles, Johns sang songs written specifically for her, including "Send In the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers. Johns was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1960 film The Sundowners. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and class years of British cinema. She is known for the breathy quality of her husky voice and her upbeat persona. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glynis Johns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins'
Using archival, never-before-released footage and newly shot interviews, this is a definitive behind-the-scenes look at Walt Disney's moviemaking magic and the creation of this classic film.
슈퍼스타
Grandma
메리(몰리 셰넌 분)는 영화 속에 나오는 키스씬처럼 멋진 남자와 키스를 해보는 것이 소원인 꿈 많은 여고생. 메리는 외모도 볼품없는데다가 혼자서 중얼거리고, 나무에 키스를 퍼붓는 등 기이한 행동으로 학교 친구들로부터 따돌림 당한다. 결국 메리는 문제아 반에 들어가게 되고 학교에서 가장 인기 있는 남학생인 스카이(윌 페렐 분)를 짝사랑 하게 된다. 어느 날 학교에 교내 탤런트 콘테스트가 계최된다는 공고가 붙는다. 이 사실을 알게된 메리는 수퍼스타가 되는 절호의 기회라 생각해 오디션에 참가하기로 결심하고 매일밤 혼자 노래와 연기 연습을 하며 수퍼스타를 꿈꾼다. 드드어 오디션날 메리는 떨리는 마음으로 무대에 오르고 멋지게 춤과 노래를 부르던 중 그녀를 싫어하는 에비안에 의해 무대에서 수모를 당하고 만다. 이에 메리는 크게 상심하지만 뜻밖에 합격 소식을 듣고 다시 용기를 얻게 된다. 메리는 본선에서 1등을 하기 위해 문제아반 친구들과 연습을 시작하고 할머니의 도움으로 그들의 실력은 나날이 향상되어 간다. 드디어 본선이 개최되는 날 많은 심사위원과 관객들 앞에서 메리는 노래를 부르고 이어 친구들과 함께 공연이 시작된다. 그러나 이때 갑자기 음악이 빨리 나와 무대는 엉망이 되고 마는데.
당신이 잠든 사이에
Elsie
루시는 비록 초라한 아파트와 고양이 한 마리 그리고 토큰 판매부스에서 일하는 친구가 몇 명 있을 뿐 정작 가장 소중한 사람들인 부모나 가족이 없다. 그런 루시는 지금 넋이 나갈 정도로 잘 생긴 남자와 사랑에 빠져 있다. 그러나 루시는 그를 단 한번이라도 만난 적도 없고, 얘기를 나눠보지도 못했다. 루시가 짝사랑하는 그 남자는 어느날 아침 불량배들에게 떠밀려 플랫폼의 철도 위로 떨어지고 결국 혼수상태로 빠진다.
The Secret Garden
Darjeeling (voice)
Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted to her uncle's old, mysterious house in England after her parents' deaths. After making friends with a country boy and several animals, who talk here, she discovers many secrets on the grounds, including a locked-up, neglected garden and a locked-up, sickly boy, who turns out to be her cousin.
사랑의 금고털이
Rose Chasseur
크리스마스 이브. 베이비 룩이라는 작은 도시에 아기 예수상이 없어지고 윌러드 가에 강도가 침입하는 사건이 발생한다. 결혼 12년째인 부부 개롤라인과 로이드는 늘상 끊이지 않는 불화로 부부문제 전문상담소에 다니며 치료를 받고 있다. 도망치던 강도 거스는 캐롤라인과 로이드를 인질로 잡고 그들의 집으로 들어간다. 때는 크리스마스 이브. 이들 부부의 집에 저녁 내내 손님들이 찾아오자 강도는 마음을 졸인다. 캐롤라인과 로이드 부부가 사는 집은 모두가 갈등관계. 선한 강도와 다툼만 하는 부부아 문제아 아들.
Nukie
Sister Anne
Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
Ms. Grimwood (voice)
Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls.
Zelly and Me
Co-Co
A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.
Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Spraggue
Aunt Mary
In this failed TV pilot, Boston professor and amateur detective, Michael Spraggue, together with his eccentric aunt investigates a suspicious physician in connection with the death of his acquaintance which endangers their lives.
Three Dangerous Ladies
Mrs. Amworth
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Mrs. Amworth
Mrs. Amworth
A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
The Happy Prince
Swallow (voice)
A royal statue makes friends with a small swallow.
The Vault of Horror
Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Under Milk Wood
Myfanwy Price
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Lock Up Your Daughters
Mrs Squeezum
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Don't Just Stand There
Sabine Manning
In exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve a complicated situation involving her friend Sabine Manning, a well-known author of sex novels.
Dear Brigitte
Vina Leaf
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
메리 포핀스
Mrs. Winnifred Banks
영국 런던의 브리티쉬 뱅크에 다니고 있는 조지 뱅크스, 여성 참정권을 주장하고 다니는 그의 아내 위니프레드 뱅크스, 그리고 매번 유모들을 쫓아내다시피 하는 말썽꾸러기 아이들 제인과 마이클. 그 날도 아이들은 유모 몰래 사라져 버리고 유모는 더 이상 못 참겠다며 가방을 싸들고 집을 나선다. 집으로 돌아오던 뱅크스 부인은 유모를 말려보지만 소용이 없다. 결국 유모는 뱅크스댁을 떠나게 되고, 그제서야 아이들이 돌아온다. 뱅크스씨는 신문에 유모를 구한다는 기사를 내려하고, 아이들은 자신들이 원하는 유모의 조건을 적어가지고 온다. 붉은 뺨을 하고 있어야 하고, 재미있는 놀이를 많이 알고 있는 유모를 원한다는 것이다. 그러나 뱅크스씨는 이 종이를 찢어버린다. 다음날, 면접을 보러 많은 사람들이 몰려오지만, 우산을 타고 내려온 메리 포핀스의 바람에 모두들 날아가 버린다. 어떨결에 메리 포핀스를 유모로 정하게 된 뱅크스씨. 아이들은 가방에서 옷걸이며, 화분이며 이것 저것을 꺼내는 메리 포핀스를 보며 신기해 한다. 메리 포핀스와 노래를 부르며 방을 치우고 굴뚝 청소부 버트와 함께 그림속 축제가 열리는 마을로 여행도 가고, 웃으면 붕 뜨는 알버트를 만나 함께 웃으며 즐거운 시간을 보낸다. 어느날 아이들은 아버지를 따라 브리티쉬 은행에 가게 되는데, 그곳에서 마이클이 가진 2펜스 때문에 소동이 벌어지는데...
Papa's Delicate Condition
Amberlyn Griffith
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
The Chapman Report
Teresa Harnish
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Cabinet of Caligari
Jane Lindstrom
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
The Sundowners
Mrs. Firth
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
The Spider's Web
Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
지옥에서 악수하라
Kitty Brady
아일랜드 독립 전쟁이 한창이던 1921년의 더블린, 아일랜드계 미국인인 의대생 케리는 한 발짝 물러나 정치적 중립을 지키려 한다. 어느 날 밤, 케리와 친구 패디는 우련히 IRA의 게릴라 기습 현장을 지나게 되는데, 현장을 빠져나가던 중 패디가 영국군의 총에 맞아 숨지고 만다. IRA의 지도자인 레니한 교수를 따라 나선 케리는 혼란 속에서 선택의 기로에 선다. 격렬한 사회적 갈등과 충돌 속에서 개인이 겪는 고통과 인간적 고뇌를 그린 작품. (2017년 영화의 전당 - 아일랜드 영화 특별전)
다른 시간 다른 장소
Kay Trevor
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
All Mine to Give
Jo Eunson
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
80일간의 세계일주
Sporting Lady's Companion
영국 빅토리아 여왕 시기, 모험을 즐기며 꼼꼼하고 감정을 잘 드러내지 않는 성격의 거부 필리스 포그(데이빗 니븐)는 자기가 속한 클럽의 친구들과 내기를 한다. 80일 동안에 지구를 한 바퀴 돌 수 있느냐는 논쟁을 벌인 끝에 그의 전 재산 2만 파운드를 건 것이다. 새로 일을 시작한 그의 충실한 집사 빠스빠르뚜(캔틴플라스)와 함께 그는 곧바로 세계일주 여행을 떠난다. 그러나 그들은 여행 시작부터 마르세이유행 열차를 놓치고, 여행사 직원으로부터 기구를 구입하여 여행을 계속하나 목적지가 아닌 스페인에 도착하게 되는 등 어려움을 겪게 된다. 빠스빠르뚜의 코믹한 투우 덕에 배를 얻어 타고 스페인에서 벗어난 그들은 계획된 여행경로를 따라 여행을 계속한다. 마지막까지 자신을 방해하며 뒤쫓는 탐정을 따돌리며 세계일주에 성공하지만, 결국 그는 기한보다 하루가 지나서 영국에 도착한다. 그러나 지구 반대편의 시차로 인한 착오였음이 밝혀지고 그는 내기에서 이긴다.
Loser Takes All
Cary
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
코트 제스터
Maid Jean
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Josephine and Men
Josephine Luton
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Mad About Men
Caroline Trewella / Miranda Trewella
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
The Beachcomber
Martha Jones
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
The Seekers
Marion Southey
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Helen Mary MacPherson MacGregor
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
The Weak and the Wicked
Jean Raymond
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Personal Affair
Barbara Vining
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
The Sword and the Rose
Princess Mary Tudor
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
덴리 시장이 되다
Ruth Earp
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
매직 박스
May Jones
사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.
Appointment with Venus
Nicola Fallaize
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
No Highway
Marjorie Corder
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
Encore
Stella Cotman
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Flesh and Blood
Katherine Manley
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
State Secret
Lisa Robinson
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
Dear Mr. Prohack
Mimi Warburton
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Helter Skelter
Miranda Trewella
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Third Time Lucky
Joan Burns
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Miranda
Miranda Trewella
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
An Ideal Husband
Mabel Chiltern
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Frieda
Judy Dawson
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
This Man Is Mine
Millie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Perfect Strangers
Dizzy Clayton
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
The Halfway House
Gwyneth
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
The Adventures of Tartu
Paula Palacek
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
북위 49도선
Anna
이차대전 중, 독일의 유보트 37호는 벌써 수개월째 캐나다의 허드슨만에 출몰하며 오가는 선박들을 괴롭히고 있었다. 그러나 식량약탈과 주변정탐을 위해 여섯 명의 정찰대를 상륙시킨 직후, 캐나다공군에 의해 격침되고 만다. 불시에 고립된 정찰대는 일단 인근마을로 잠입해, 모피사냥꾼 조니(로렌스 올리비에)가 묵고 있는 집을 점거한다. 조니는 정치에는 무관심한 사람이지만, 나치의 침입을 알리기 위해 목숨까지 건다. 구조요청을 받고 출동한 수상비행기를 탈취해 도주하던 나치일당은 비행기의 추락으로 지휘관을 잃는다. 남은 일당을 지휘하게 된 히르트대위(에릭 포트먼)는 광신적인 나치주의자이다. 그는 당시 중립을 표방하고 있던 미국으로 탈출하기 위해 캐나다대륙을 횡단하기로 결심한다. 도중에 우연히, 히틀러의 학살정책 때문에 캐나다로 피난 온 독일인들의 협동농장을 가게 된다. 히르트대위는 그들에게 나치주의를 설파하지만 호응은커녕 배척만 받는다. 설상가상으로 전쟁 전 제빵사였던 부하 포겔마저 농장에 남겠다고 하자, 그를 탈영죄로 처형하고는 길을 떠난다. 고장 난 차를 돕는 척하며 약탈한 양복으로 갈아입은 일당은 기차를 타고 밴쿠버로 잠입한다. 그러나 시내에는 이미 수배령이 내려있다. 결국 한 명은 체포되고 남은 둘은 로키산맥으로 도주한다. 길을 잃고 헤매던 일당은 영국인 작가이며 민속연구가인 스콧(레즐리 하워드)의 도움을 받게 된다. 그러나 전쟁 따위에 초연한 그의 태도에 분개한 히르트대위는 강도짓을 하고 달아난다. 하지만 남은 부하 하나마저 스콧의 동료들에게 붙잡히고 혼자 도망치는 신세가 되고 만다. 간신히 미국행 열차 화물칸에 숨어든 그는 그곳에서 캐나다군 탈영병 앤디(레이몬드 매시)와 부딪친다. 군 생활에는 불만이 많았어도 애국심만은 확고했던 앤디는, 미국세관원들을 설득해 히르트대위의 미국행을 좌절시키고야 만다.
바그다드의 도둑
Princess's maid (uncredited)
바그다드 왕국의 왕자 아메드는 자파라는 사악한 대신에게 왕좌를 빼앗기고 지하 감옥에 갇힌다. 장터에서 음식을 훔치다 붙잡힌 아부 역시 같은 지하 감옥에 갇히면서 둘은 서로 만나게 된다. 죽음을 눈앞에 둔 이 둘은 감옥을 탈출해 바스라 왕국에 이른다. 이 왕국의 공주와 사랑에 빠지게 된 아메드. 한편 자파는 바스라 왕국의 공주와 결혼하려 하고 장난감 수집광인 왕에게 날아다니는 말을 선물함으로써 그의 환심을 산다. 하지만 이미 아메드와 사랑에 빠진 공주의 마음을 사기란 쉽지 않은 일. 난관에 처한 자파는 마법을 걸어 아메드를 눈 먼 장님으로 만들고 아부를 개로 변하게 하는데..
The Briggs Family
Sheila Briggs
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Under Your Hat
Winnie
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
On the Night of the Fire
Mary
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Prison Without Bars
Nina
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
South Riding
Midge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Murder in the Family
Marjorie Osborne
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.